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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Ahead of oral arguments Wednesday at the U.S. Supreme Court, Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves on Sunday defended the state's 2018 law banning abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. The Republican Reeves told NBC's “Meet the Press” that he believed 1973's Roe v. Wade decision, by which the high court legalized abortion nationwide, should be overturned. “I believe, in a simple...

alert top story In deciding in 1961 to outlaw recognition of the Communist Party of the USA in Arizona, state legislators cited "recent events in the neighboring country of Cuba'' where the government of dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown in 1959 by a revolution led by Fidel Castro, shown here. PHOENIX — A bill to be introduced in the 2022 legislative session, which would mandate that ...

Single Post Template - Magazine PRO Homeland Security Today U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar and the Department of Justice’s Office of International Affairs hosted a regional bilateral meeting Tuesday in Tijuana, Mexico to discuss security cooperation matters. Specifically, the two delegations discussed deepening coordination on fighting human smuggling and firearms trafficking in the re...

WASHINGTON — In 1973, in Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court drew a line. The Constitution, it said, did not allow states to ban abortions before the fetus could survive outside the womb. On Wednesday, when the court hears the most important abortion case in a generation, a central question will be whether the court’s conservative majority is prepared to erase that line. The case concerns a Missis...

Over the course of its 23 seasons (and counting) run, "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" has indulged in more than a few memorable and surprising plot twists. There was, as fans will recall, the time Stephanie March's ADA Alexandra Cabot faked her own death, then returned to the series with entirely different motivations. There was also the time the NYPD's own M.E. (Carl Rudnick, played ...

More than nine in 10 people who have faced protest charges in Hong Kong are too young to access a UK visa scheme dedicated to helping Hongkongers flee to Britain, according to advocates and MPs calling for new laws to assist them. The release of the figures on Sunday by the advocacy group Hong Kong Watch comes before a parliamentary debate this week on proposed migration law amendments that w...

“An utter failure”: Law meant to clear old convictions, including for marijuana possession, helps few  The Boston Globe

Photo: Manan Vatsyayana (Getty Images) Australia is trying to make it harder to be an internet troll, but at what cost? Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced plans to introduce legislation that, in certain cases, would force social media companies to hand over the personal information of users who post defamatory comments, Reuters reports. While I’m all for cracking down on trolls and e...

KEPR Action News TRI-CITIES, Wash. — Local law enforcement in Washington and Oregon along with Walmart Transportation are collecting gifts for kids who may have to spend the holidays in the hospital. "We are collecting toys for children who unfortunately have to spend the holiday season in area hospitals here in the Tri-Cities, in Spokane, in Seattle and in Portland," Lt. Aaron Clem with the ...

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is introducing new defamation laws that would force online platforms to reveal the identities of trolls, or else pay the price of defamation. As ABC News Australia explains, the laws would hold social platforms, like Facebook or Twitter, accountable for defamatory comments made against users. Platforms will also have to create a complaint system that p...